A Validity Study of the MWEP Scale in Hong Kong

Tsun-Lok Kwong and Pik-Ching Wan
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Tsun-Lok Kwong: University of Management and Technology, United States
Pik-Ching Wan: Teesside University, United Kingdom

Management, 2017, vol. 12, issue 3, 217-234

Abstract: This article examines the validity of the Multidimensional Work Ethic Profile, MWEP, in the Hong Kong setting. Purposive quota sampling is adopted to solicit data from a total of 140 respondents with equal gender distribution across seven age groups in Hong Kong. Factor analysis reveals that similarity exists between factor loadings in original MWEP model of Miller, Woehr, and Hudspeth (2002) and the model in the current study with Hong Kong samples. However, the MWEP items in the current study does not map exactly into the seven dimensions proposed by Miller, Woehr, and Hudspeth. The leisure and the morality/ethics dimensions match with the original scale respectively with good and poor reliabilities, but the hard work and wasted time dimensions have intertwined and appeared to be inseparable.

Keywords: MWEP; work ethic; multidimensional; Hong Kong; validity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.26493/1854-4231.12.217-234

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